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type: "Bill"
title: "Health Insurance - Qualified Resident Enrollment Program (Access to Care Act)"
description: "Health Insurance - Qualified Resident Enrollment Program (Access to Care Act)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 705"
citation: "Maryland SB 705 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hayes", "Lam"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 20
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-01-30"
last_action: "2024-05-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/30ee4cbc-1f6d-4055-938b-cb6b3fffdee5"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0705?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "dad3f1ccd24c989f390993b5ad4542ab0e78f35325d9773e019568895cad0dc8"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-md"]
---
# Maryland SB 705 (2024) — Health Insurance - Qualified Resident Enrollment Program (Access to Care Act)
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Chapter - Health Insurance - Qualified Resident Enrollment Program (Access to Care Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_841_sb0705t.pdf)
2. **First - Health Insurance - Qualified Resident Enrollment Program (Access to Care Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0705f.pdf)
3. **Third - Health Insurance - Qualified Resident Enrollment Program (Access to Care Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0705t.pdf)
## Votes
- Floor Amendment Mautz /273024/1 — **1432** (fail) · upper
- Floor Amendment Folden /123521/1 — **1530** (fail) · upper
- Floor Amendment McKay /853222/1 — **1432** (fail) · upper
- On Third Reading — **10038** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **3413** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Hayes — primary (person)
- Lam — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-01-30** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-02** Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-04** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-05** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-05** Committee Amendment Adopted
- **2024-03-05** Motion Special Order until 3/6 (Senator Folden) Adopted
- **2024-03-06** Favorable with Amendments Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-06** Floor Amendment {
- **2024-03-06** Floor Amendment {
- **2024-03-06** Floor Amendment {
- **2024-03-06** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-03-08** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-11** Referred Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-16** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-25** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-26** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-26** Second Reading Passed
- **2024-03-27** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-28** Returned Passed
- **2024-05-16** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 841 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/30ee4cbc-1f6d-4055-938b-cb6b3fffdee5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).